Girl, you so hot when you got your baboon ass on
I'm all about new-wave evolutionary biology and how primate behaviors are deeply encoded in our brains and/or DNA. We are primates, after all, and no matter how civilized we may be, you still can't civilize that fundamental biology out of us. God knows organized religions and governments have tried.
As a sexologist, the subject is particularly fascinating because it raises so many questions about whether it's possible (or ever will be possible) to ascertain how much human sexual response is biological, how much a result of social conditioning, how much is individualistic response to variable stimuli, and how much of our sexual behavior is free will and conscious choice.
Still, I cracked up when I read this report. In light of all the other research coming down the pike, it's not out of the box to assert that men have a deeply rooted biological response to women who wear red. Perhaps it's true that when women put on red dresses they are, as one researcher suggests, giving male counterparts a vague visual facsimile of a baboon's swollen genitalia during estrus.
But...I don't know. If they're going to assert that all it takes is the sight of red on a woman to drive men's reptile brains into raptures of primate lust, I want to know if they tested the red dress=baboon ass=schwing theory by showing men pix of women who smeared menstrual blood on their behinds? Did they show women in different styles of red dress -- for example, do men find mumus as hot as minis?
I'm thinking it's got to be more than a baboon-ass type thing happening here. Though, ok, I confess, I love the concept that men really are that simple.
(*now considering replacing my black leathers for red ones*)
Men rated a woman shown in photographs as more sexually attractive if she was wearing red clothing or if she was shown in an image framed by a red border rather than some other color, U.S. researchers said Tuesday. The study led by psychology professor Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, seemed to confirm red as the color of romance -- as so many Valentine's Day card makers and lipstick sellers have believed for years. Although this "red alert" may be a product of human society associating red with love for eons, it also may arise from more primitive biological roots, Elliot said. Noting the genetic similarity of humans to higher primates, he said scientists have shown that certain male primates are especially attracted to females of their species displaying red. For example, female baboons and chimpanzees show red coloring when nearing ovulation, sending a sexual signal that the males apparently find irresistible.
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